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HAPPY HOME COMING
FOR ABSENT NATIVES
Good to Return to Native
Heath and Hear Past
Memories.
This week the modest little
country town where you were
lx>rn is calling you home.
The people who live there have
not seen you for thirty years, and
yet some of them still remember.
They recall old “Toby,” the
good-natured bull-terrier that
guarded you so carefully when
you first ventured out of the pat
ernal yard. They still shake
their heads over the imp tha*
made a zebra of good Deacon
Wilkin’s white horse, and some
of them still quote with gusto
that famous opening sentence of
your graduation essay: “In my
opinion, Julius Caesar was a
great man.”
Out in the world, you have
thought little of the old town, ,
but the town has not lost sight
of you. It has seen your name
in the paper now and then, and
rejoiced in every triumph you
have achieved. “He's one of
our boys,” the old people say.
“We raised him, and we always
knew he’d turn out all light.”
Have you done anything to
justify t.heir interest? Do it
now. Go back, and show them
that you, too, remember. Show
them that you have not lost the
lesson of the old town’s simple,
homely democracy: that the
memory of old kindnesses is still
fragrant in your nostrils, and
that the example of worthy lives
lived humbly yet with dignity is
not lost upon you.
Small, unimportant, gossipy,
and giyen to pettiness, the town
may seem to you; but be not
hasty in your judgment. Re
member that here lived your j
father and your mother, and that
to them the town offered a sphere
large enough to develop those
qualities that we call character.
They loved it and served it well,
and would have liked to serve it
still better by having you identi
fy yourself with its interests.
You disappointed them more
than you knew when you left for
the city. And now, after all the
years, there is nothing you can
do that would so please the old
people no memorial you can
erect that would be so fitting
as to go back and renew the old
ties, pick up the old acquaintan
ces, see what the town needs,
search out some lack, and either I
by yourself, or with the help of
other home-comers, try to fill it.
Youth’s Companion.
An Absent-Minded Critic.
A Young girl recently went up
to a policeman in a boston street
and told him she had forgotten
her name. Her predicament was
more awkward but less amusing
than that of the late Archbishop
Trench.
He resigned the See of Dublin
on account of his age, and there
after dwelt in London. Once,
however, he went back to visit
his successor, Archbishop l'lunk
et.
Finding himself in his old
palace, sitting at his old dinner
table, and gazing across it at his
wife, he lapsed in memory to the
days when he was master of the
house. In the middle of the din
ner he looked over at his wife,
and remarked, gently:
“l am afraid, my love, that we
must put this cook down among
our failures!”
Soule's Protege Cots
Place At L. S. U.
Barnes ville. Ga., Aug. lib
Mr. Robert Howard, a recent
graduate of the Georgia College
of Agriculture, has accepted the
presidency of the State College
of Agriculture of Uniisiana, lo
cated at Bay wood, La. l)r. A.
M. Soule recommended him to
the authorities there and his
friends predict that he will make
u success of the work there.
Real Peace of Mind.
“One of the unusual things I
saw on my vacation in northern
Indiana wasacontented farmer,” 1
said Mayor Shank’s secretary to
an Indianapolis Star reporter.
“We were going in an automo
bile on a fishing expedition north
of Bass Lake, and we stopped to
ask a farmer the road. He was
sitting in his yard, whittling. He
gave us the information, and just
to let him know that we were
friendly, I asked him his opinion
on politics.
‘That’s something that don’t
worry me,’ the farmer said.
‘Why should I worry about poli
tics or anything else? Here I
am, living on a good farm, got a
good bain, and a wife that’s a
good worker; why should I wor
ry?’ ”
Fixing His Nativity.
While visiting in the south re
cently, a traveler chanced upon a <
resident of a sleeply hamlet in
Tennessee.
“Are you a native of this
town?” asked the traveler.
“Am 1 a what?” languidly ask
ed the man as he rose to a sit
ting posture. ;
“Are you a native of this
town?”
“I asked you whether you
were a native of this place?”
Suddenly they appeared at the
open door of the cabin the man’s
wife, till 1, gaunt and sallow. Af
ter carefully scrutinizing the in
truder, she said:
“Ain’t you got no sense a-tall,
Ira? lie means was yo’ livin’
heah when you was Irnrn or was
yo’ born after you begun livin’
heah. Now answer him.”
See a Headlight 49 Miles.
K. H. Moeller, who recently
returned from Kansas, where he
has been traveling and making
the Panhandle of Texas, received
the following letter fromafriend
of his who made his first trip
through the Panhandle:
“1 have been on the road for a
Kansas City house now for six
years traveling Kansas and Mis
souri, but the house has now ad
ded the Panhandle of Texas to
my territory, and 1 have just
finished my first trip. The first
town out of Kansas across the
strip was Tyrone, Ok. I had
spent the afternoon there and in
tended to take a night train back
to Liberal. A bunch of us were
sitting on the front porch of the
Commercial hotel when 1 saw a
headlight looming up down the 1
track. I made a rush for my
t grips and yelled at the boy to get
; his cart and take ’em over to the j
depot quick. I didn’t wait for
his answer, but ran over to the
j depot and rushed up to the win
dow ami demanded a ticket for i
Liberal.
'How’s this” I said to the
agent, “I thought this train
wasn’t due for an hour, and here
she is not a mile away.’
“‘Mister,’ he replied, ‘you'
better go back to the hotel and
buy cigars for that bunch. This j
is your first trip down here, ain’t]
it? Well, 1 thought so. That:
headlight is just forty-nine miles j
away; you’ve got pretty nearly
an hour to finish that game of
rummy. This is the longest
stretch of straight track in the
country, seventy-six miles, clear
across the Panhandle without a
curve. You see that house over
there? That’s where 1 live. I
don’t have to light a lamp until
after 9 o’clock winter nights.
About sundown the Golden State
Limited looms up down about
lYxhoma and she shines right in
to my kitchen window for an
hour,* finally getting so bright
that my wife has to pull the cur
tain. and ton minutes behind her
comes No. 34. and it takes seven
ty minutes to get by with its
light. It’s a great saving for
me, and my wife has gotten so
she won’t wash dishes by any
thing but electric light. 1 never
have to call the dispatcher to got
a line on tho trains. I climb to
the roof of the station, got a line
on tho headlight and mark up
my board accordingly. Have
you any baggage to check?’” —
I Fort Wayne-Journal-G&zette.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, SEPT. 4. 1913
Why, Indeed?
A certain captain had been ]
lecturing his new recruits at
some length on “The Duties of a
Soldier.” At last he thought the
time had come to find out just
what he had accomplished.
Casting his eye over the room, ]
he fixed on Private Murphy as
his first victim. “Private Mur
phy,” he asked, “why should a
soldier be ready to die for his
country?”
The private scratched his head
for a while; then an ingratiating
smile fitted across his face.
“Sure, captain,” he said, pleas
antly, you’re quite right. Why
should he?”
Wasting Time.
Enraptured, they gazed, hand
in-hand upon the beautiful scene
stretched before them in the set
ing sun. ’Twas the lake dis
trict, and they but three days up
on their honeymoon.
"Dearest,” he said. Gazing at
her fondly, “isn’t this heaven
ly?”
“Yes, Reginald,” she softly I
murmured.
“Do you know,” he whispered
ardently, “to me life does not
seem long enough for our happi
ness. Just think, even if we are
fortunate, our married life can
hardly last longer than fifty
years.”
“Is that all” she queried won
deringly, edging nearer.
“Yes, that’s so,” a touch of
sadness in his voice. “Only fifty
years in which to love each
other.”
“Then kiss me quick, Regi
nald,” she exclaimed, “we’re
wasting time.”
For Long Term Farm
Loans,
SEE A. B. HUTCHESON.
I am negotiating some very
attractive Long Term Farm Loans
for the best companies doing bus
iness in Georgia, with lowest rates
of interest and the most liberal
terms of payments
1 have several years experience
in the loan business, am located
at the comity site and believe that
I am m position to give you the
best terms and as prompt services
as any one.
If vou need a loan see me before
application.
A. B. Hutcheson,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Live Stock
Insurance
Insure your horse in an old
old and reliable company. Low
rates—less than two cents a day
will guarantee prompt payment
of claim. Mo assessments to pay
and no risks to run. I represent
] the Atlantic Horse Insurance Co.
iof Providence, R. I. Call and
: look into the plan.
H. L. WILT 1 MT. VERNON. GA.
CLINTON P. THOMPSON,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON AND ALAMO.
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Mt. Vernon office Tuesday, Wed-
| uesday, Thursday. Telephone. '
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Any other kind will ruin it. 1
have a diploma, and guarantee
all work. Write, and I will call.
ORGANS REPAIRED.
Charles L. Hamilton,
MT. VERNON, GA.
E. M. RACKLEY
Dentist
Office over Mt. Vernon Drug (Jo.
MT. VERNON. GA.
L. W. RUSH,
Dental Surgeon,
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Sopertnn, Ga.
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A Note to You:
Jan. 23. 1913. '
We have no regular delivery
wagon as yet. Within a few
years air ships will come into
general use, and many of our
patrons will have deliveries made
from our place in this novel and
rapid manner.
In the mean time, should you
not live directly in touch with
our drug store, many of your
purchases can be forwarded by
Uncle Sam’s new mail service—
the Parcels Post —delivered right
at your door. That class of goods
commonly known as merchandise
will be forwarded at our expense,
free to your door, and we should
be glad to have our patrons take
advantage of this new and eco
nomical method of shopping.
P. S. School books cannot be
forwarded at the Parcels Post
rates.
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